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Welcome to Chi Garden (蕺菜园)
Food as Medicine, Farm as Livelihood.
Chi Garden's
Chi Garden Ecological Farm & Fermentation Kitchen
We are a small, BIPOC-owned local farm business located at Just Food Community Farm - 2391 Pepin Ct. 2024 is our 10th growing season. We are certified organic by Eco-cert. At Chi Garden, we first take care of soil by practicing regenerative, no-till nature farming. Healthy soil food web takes care of vegetables, which are nutrient-dense and contain many healing elements. Food is medicine. We produce a diverse salad mix with 20 vegetables, herbs and wild edibles from the global east and west every year, from May to November. We passionately preserve our harvest, primarily through lacto-fermentation. We have over 20 ‘cultured pickle’ products for sale year-round. As new immigrants, we are constantly learning and re-learning many traditional techniques from First Nation communities, East Asian traditions, and fellow growers. We consciously reduce outside input and carbon footprint in our garden and when we sell our products. Through cultivating diversity, we envision our garden to become a space for community conversations around connected traditions and a shared future. Find us at Main Street Farmers Market on Saturdays and Just Food Farm Stand on Sundays during the growing season from May to October. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @chigarden2015.
We grew luffa for food and for sponge. Their fibre is great for cleansing inside out and outside in! Exfoliating, gentle, chemical and plastics free natural sponges for body, face, kitchen and around the house. Great gift idea. Available this weekend at @justfoodfarmstand holiday market. 11-3pm Saturday and Sunday Dec 6-7, 2025. 2391 Pepin Ct.
Hot and sour miso jiàng with apple. Sweetness meets umami - an elevated chili sauce experience. Can use as a noodle sauce, with flat bread or wrap, in stir fry and charcuterie board! A must try 🔥🍎🌶️🫑😋
Two new products for the upcoming market this weekend. Fermented tofu is truly vegan umami at its best. Hot pepper salt is both fragrant and delicious! Will have samples to try.
We are open! Lansdowne @ottawafarmersmarket. Last one of the farmers market season. From May to November, every week (except for one). Li Bo and Jerry is doing the honour today to serve you. Today we are well stocked with kimchi, natto, douchi, miso, chilli sauce, mushroom oil, perilla juice, saag, sunroot. Still some Vietnamese coriander and the heart-healthy gynura 红凤菜. Try samples, and chat with Li Bo about everything douchi 豆豉 and sunroot!
Open till 3pm today at Lansdowne Farmers Market. Just harvested Baby mustard green, bokchoy, eggplant, sunroot, Fig-leave squash, Vietnamese coriander, lots of kimchi and miso, natto, dough I, mushroom oil and herbal tea. Inside with heat on, feeling pampered 🥰.
First farmers market at Lansdowne! 9-3pm. Vegetables, diversity salads with edible flowers, Sunroot, sweet potato greens, Vietnamese coriander, eggplants, bitter melons, luffa. Many delicious ferments, preserves, sauces: miso, pesto, natto, kimchi, krauts, mushroom, hot sauce, chilli sauce and more! Excited to be in this indoors space!
Dear Friends,
The season has flown by so quickly. We started in May, when the maples were just budding and we still had to dress in layers. Now, as October draws to a close and we say goodbye to the season and to the Main Market 2025 today, we find ourselves layering up again for single-digit temperatures. But there will be a great salad mix, tomatoes, sweet potatoes greens, and many varieties of preserves including three miso choices!
We want to take a moment to thank you for your support, encouragement, feedback, and all the wonderful conversations. Last week, when the red maples in the park were at their peak of autumn rhapsody, I looked back at our small tent from afar and felt a deep sense of gratitude. Our customers have inspired us in many ways, with the questions you asked, the stories you shared, and the images of those small seedlings that grew strong and bore fruit in your gardens. Each connection reminds us that peace is possible when we stay rooted in the same living world.
We are proud to have been your farmers, and your kimchi and natto makers this year.
And yes, tofu will make its return next season!
Keep well and enjoy winter,
Sun Shan, Li Bo, and Jerry
P.S. We will be at the Sunday Lansdowne market in November for three weekends. Come by to see us. December 6-7 will be the holiday market at Just Food Community Farm and we will send out a note before then.
See you at Main Market today 9-2 pm. Got a new batch of frost peach hot sauce and squash miso. Diversity salad, bitter melon, tomato. Various kimchi, natto, shiromiso, and much more!
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As a Ecological Farm and Fermentation Kitchen, we first take care of soil, by practicing regenerative, no till, nature farming. Healthy soil food web takes care of vegetables, so that they are nutrient-dense and contain loads of healing elements.
"FOOD IS MEDICINE"
- Sun' Shan & Li' Bo
Chi Garden Ecological Farm & Fermentation Kitchen
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+1 613 922 0513
Chigarden@Chigarden2015.com
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2391 Pepin Ct. Ottawa, ON, Canada